Mandela was found sipping tea with his shoes off in a quiet Cape Town home, his driver having made a detour to avoid the crowd outside the city hall.
President Jacob Zuma has announced that all of the new South African bank notes will bear the image of former president Nelson Mandela.
The passing of 20 years since FW de Klerk’s monumental speech has provided the occasion for much public evaluation of our constitutional progress.
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/ 12 February 2010
Feverish preparations to receive the jailed leader could never have been perfect — there was no precedent.